Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)

[Doug Millison]

A minor clarification: when I called GR  a "young man's book" I 
referred to the age of the author, not to the novel's readers.  I may 
be beginning to feel about GR as I do about Moby Dick. When I first 
went away to college, I had a great English teacher, named William 
Buford (a Yale Younger Poet, FYI), we were talking about MB one day, 
and I was telling him with great sophomoric enthusiasm how I had 
enjoyed the action of that novel's final sequences; I had read the 
book when I was 12.  He suggested I read it again in my 20s, then 
again when I was 40.  Which I did, enjoying the way my appreciation 
for the novel evolved over time. Same thing with  GR -- I read it 
first in '73 when it first came out, dipped in and out of it a lot 
over the years, then read it again straight through last fall, my 
engagement with the novel evolving over the years.
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